LOS ANGELES -- After successfully delivering a U.S.-European ocean-monitoring satellite into orbit, a Space X rocket made a hard landing on a floating barge in the roiling Pacific, breaking a support ...

Elon Musk's private space company will try to land rocket booster on a barge. SpaceX's Falcon 9 will attempt to land on this unmanned landing platform, seen here in an undated handout photo. — -- ...

Remember the first time you saw a SpaceX rocket nail a bullseye landing after hurtling back from space? How about the first time two boosters landed side by side, punctuating the inaugural launch of ...

As many in the tech industry are aware, SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket landing test did not go as planned. To put it in the words of the company’s CEO, Elon Musk: it was “close, but no cigar.” The failure ...